Looking Up

It's been a while since I've posted a picture for Illustration Friday, but I really liked the theme this week - star gazing - and thought I'd do a simple drawing for it...

BFG

This week's Illustration Friday theme is Giant. This is the first time I've had something relevant that I'd already done - one I prepared earlier in true Blue Peter fashion! This big friendly giant is one of a series of illustrations that go with some brilliant children's poems that a friend has written...

Pretty Pattern

This week's Illustration Friday theme is paisley. I've been meaning to learn how to make a pattern in Photoshop so this was the perfect chance... More patterns to come no doubt!

Ripple Effect

This week's Illustration Friday theme is 'Ripple'. Seeing as it's summer I thought I'd go for the ice cream topping sense of the word!

Breadcrumb Trail

I haven't taken part in Illustration Friday for quite a while, and this week's theme - Trail - stumped me for a while until I thought of the breadcrumb trail Hansel & Gretel leave...

Illustration Friday

The latest Illustration Friday word is "ahead". The old hare and tortoise story was the first thing that came to mind, but I've just realised a London Marathon theme would have been more fitting. I don't think either of these animals has just done 26 miles!!

Guess Work

Guess the theme for this week's Illustration Friday!!

Linked In

I missed last week's Illustration Friday due to being on a little holiday by the sea in Cornwall. Now, back and with a pink nose to prove it, I wanted to get straight on the case with the most recent challenge - the word to illustrate is 'linked'. The fruit might not be an obvious choice, but it's the design that's linked, with two long black lines connecting everything in the picture...

Rescue Mission

Rescue is this week's Illustration Friday theme... this is inspired by a colleague's local newspaper story of a cat stuck up a tree for three days (it's a cliché but really, this was front page news last week)!! My cat seems perfectly happy where it is, as is probably often the case.

Best Before

The lastest theme for Illustration Friday is 'expired'. It stumped me a bit, until earlier today at work I was changing over some flowers and throwing away a bunch of roses past their best. There is still a beauty about dead flowers and it does seem a bit sacreligious to consign them to the bin, but there you go. So anyway, expired (in sharp contrast to the post below!)...

The Underground

The latest Illustration Friday brief is 'subterranean'. I'd planned for a rabbit in its warren reading a book by lamplight, but it turned out entirely differently, and somewhat closer to reality...

Brave

The theme for this week's Illustration Friday is... brave. I had to really think about what to do and wanted to depict it in a not-too-literal way. I think that jumping out of a plane is very brave - and a bit crazy but I think if I could pluck up the courage I might try it one day! Maybe.

Daily Draw

This (well, last) week's Illustration Friday theme is 'perspective'. I didn't fancy a struggle with foreshortening, so went for a slightly quirky interpretation..

Daily Draw

Gosh the weeks are flying past, I can't believe it's already time for another Illustration Friday. The latest theme is 'propagate', which I took in its chinese whispers-esque incarnation...

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Daily Draw

This is my entry for this week's Illustration Friday - the theme is 'Adrift'.